This blog post will show you how to set up Red hat on AWS.
A full video of the process can be seen below.
- First log into your AWS account
- Click Services and then ec2
- Click launch instance
- Search for red hat and select red hat 8
- Select micro instance (it’s free tier)
- Click next configure instance details
- Click Next Add storage
- Click next add tags
- Click Add tag
- In the Key field type Name and then type a name in the value field for example darren’s server
- Click Next: Configure Security group
- select my IP and click Review and Launch
- Click launch
- Select create a new keypair, give it a name and click download keypair.
- To connect to our instance we will need to convert the key we downloaded, to do so we will use putty and puttygen they can be downloaded form here: https://www.putty.org/
- Open puttygen and click Load
- Navigate to where you downloaded your key, click all files, click on your key and click open.
- Now click Save Private key, when prompted click yes you want to save without a passphrase.
- Now open putty and enter your public IP into the host name or IP address field, then expand SSH on the left had side.
- Click auth and then browse, navigate to where you saved your key and select it.
- Now click open
- Click Yes
- Enter ec2user as the username and click enter.
- You will now be logged in